Lt. Tom Preston faces a most personal dilemma when his wife's surgeon, having just saved her life, confesses to murder! Now he must choose between his duty and the potential welfare of his wife. Just how could such a man trained in saving lives be capable of taking another?

The Commander, as he's affectionately called by those closest to him, is a war hero returned home only with some injury to the brain that's reduced him to a shell of the man he once was. The Commander, who lives with a well-to-do family, has one main wish: to have an house all his own. However when the Commander's shady young brother kills a man, the family tries to convince the Commander he did it so as to avoid a damaging family scandal. What is to become of the Commander now?